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In the Spirit of Reconciliation, the Garden will be a contemplative place where our community can pause, reflect and remember.
The Kelso Beach site was chosen as our oral and written history tells us that the banks of the Sydenham and Potawatomie were once the fertile hunting and fishing grounds of the Saugeen Ojibwa Nation of the Nawash people.
Please join us on September 30 - National Day of Truth and Reconciliation as we "Remember The Children" at the Giche-Name Wiikwedong Reconciliation Garden from 11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
• 11:00 a.m. ~ Sacred Fire and Pipe Ceremony
• 11:15 a.m. ~ 2 Songs Drummers and Singers
• 11:20 a.m.~ Introduce Speaker Shayla Adamson from the Junior Optimist Club have painted “Forget me Not “ Stones They lay their stones with Gichi Name (Grandmother Sturgeon ) Chii Miigwech Junior Optimist Club – gift Every Child Matters buttons
• 11:30 a.m. ~ Guests to tie orange ribbons on the fence in honor of the Children who didn’t make it home - Song Drummers and Singer while the ribbons are tied on the fence
• 12:00 p.m. ~ Sharing Circle Elder Shirley John - Strong White Buffalo Woman
• 1:00 p.m. ~ Closing Song Drummers and Singers Please wear your Orange Shirt!
